Upgrade/Reorganize Unitrends Backups

Tony (Team Alpha Super Awesome Cool Dynamite Wolf Squadron) Stahl

1 Month

Duration

100

Users

250

Devices

$36

Budget

13000 GB

Data

Upgrading one Unitrends Appliance & moving the old one do our DR branch to be a dedicated replication target.
Refresh other appliances through the 3 year maintenance agreement special Unitrends had running.

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States

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We found that our retention was getting short and with some new servers on the horizon it is a great time to increase our available storage on out Unitrends appliances. The most cost effective plan was to purchase one 823 to give us 13 TB of space for backups and replication from our other 2 appliances. We would move the one 813 from this site to our other branch (DR site) to be a dedicated replication destination and the current 813 at that site will stop being a replication destination and it will do backups only. That now backup only 813 appliance will replicate back to the new 823.

Upgrade and swaparoo was completed in early Dec 2014 and then we got sold on the "special" program of purchasing 3 year support and getting a free appliance refresh. I am currently waiting for my new appliances to arrive and I will start the swapout process. My goal, besides getting it done, is to document the steps and share it in the Spiceworks Community.